Bug 20506

Summary:	Change to zoneinfo file for Fiji
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	simon.greaves
Component:	glibc	Assignee:	Jakub Jelinek <jakub>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Version:	6.2	CC:	fweimer
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Description simon.greaves 2000-11-08 04:46:20 UTC

The Fijian Government have decided to scrap daylight savings so the
zoneinfo
file needs to be updated.

I fixed my PC by creating a file with the following line:

Zone    Fiji  12:00   -    FJT

then ran zic on that file. Strictly speaking the file should probably have
the
daylight savings stuff in it too with a 'Zone' line with an 'Until' field,
but the
simple case will suffice for me.

/etc/localtime is a copy of the selected zoneinfo file, wouldn't this be
better as a symlink?

Comment 1 Jakub Jelinek 2000-11-08 13:51:09 UTC

I don't think we should issue 6.2 erratas because of this (where would thousands
of people need to download several megabytes over the net), I believe it will
make into next official timezone data and will appear in probably in glibc
2.2.1. glibc 2.2 Fiji record is:
# Fiji
# Rule  NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
Rule    Fiji    1998    max     -       Nov     Sun>=1  2:00    1:00    S
Rule    Fiji    1999    max     -       Feb     lastSun 3:00    0       -
# Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
Zone    Pacific/Fiji    11:53:40 -      LMT     1915 Oct 26     # Suva
                        12:00   Fiji    FJ%sT   # Fiji Time

Comment 2 simon.greaves 2000-11-08 22:14:44 UTC

I agree an errata would be inappropriate, I just thought it would be worth while
raising the issue
and posting a fix in case anyone else was looking for a solution. Thanks for the
prompt response.

8<--------------------------------------------------
# Fiji
# Rule  NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
Rule    Fiji    1998    max     -       Nov     Sun>=1  2:00    1:00    S
Rule    Fiji    1999    max     -       Feb     lastSun 3:00    0       -
# Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
Zone    Pacific/Fiji    11:53:40 -      LMT     1915 Oct 26     # Suva
                        12:00   Fiji    FJ%sT   2000 Aug 31     # Fiji Time
                        12:00   -       FJDT